Combine Harvesters

Theory, Modeling, and Design

Petre Miu (Projects, Richmond Hill, Canada)

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English

CRC Press Inc
18 August 2015

Automotive technology & trades; Agricultural engineering & machinery

From Basic Fundamentals to Advanced Design Applications

A culmination of the author’s more than 20 years of research efforts, academic papers, and lecture notes, Combine Harvesters: Theory, Modeling, and Design outlines the key concepts of combine harvester process theory and provides you with a complete and thorough understanding of combine harvester processes. Utilizing a wealth of experimental data to promote validated mathematical models, this book presents the latest stochastic and deterministic modeling methods, evolutionary computational techniques, and practical applications.

Highly focused on engineering and mathematics, it incorporates the use of simulation software (including MATLAB®) throughout the text and introduces a unified approach that can be used for any combine harvester functional structure. The book addresses modeling, simulation, evolutionary optimization, and combine process design. Breadth of coverage includes general technical specifications, developing machine layout as defined by engineering calculations, and design considerations for major subassembly processes.

Comprised of 15 chapters, this text:

Provides examples of current combine systems/elements design throughout the book Incorporates applications/exercises inspired by the author’s engineering and research experience Uses both SI (metric) and imperial/U.S. measuring units throughout

Combine Harvesters: Theory, Modeling, and Design

contains principles, calculations, and examples that can aid you in combine process modeling and simulation, the development of combine process and driving task-based control systems by considering a top-to-bottom design of combine assembly and components.

By: Petre Miu (Projects Richmond Hill Canada)
Imprint: CRC Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 1.070kg
ISBN: 9781466505124
ISBN 10: 1466505125
Pages: 460
Publication Date: 18 August 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction to Combine Harvesters. System Modeling, Simulation, and Control. Crop Harvesting Data and Plant Properties. Plant Cutting, Gathering, and Conveying Processes and Equipment. Cereal Threshing and Separating Processes: Threshing Units. Separation Process and Operation of Straw Walkers. Cleaning Unit Process and Operation. Grain Conveying Process and Equipment. Crop Residue Chopping and Spreading Processes and Equipment. Corn Ear Dehusking Process and Equipment. Power System of a Combine Harvester. Dynamic Modeling of Material Flow in a Combine Harvester. Sensors and Fault Diagnosis Systems for Combine Harvesters. Cab, Controls, and Human–Machine Interface. Guidance and Control of Autonomous Combine Harvesters. References. Bibliography. Appendix.

Petre Miu is the owner of Projenics (www.projenics.net), Canada. He worked as a research associate at the Biosystems Engineering Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and as a professor at the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania. Dr. Miu began his most prolific and prestigious scientific work in Stuttgart, Germany, at Hohenheim University, Institute of Agricultural Engineering, where the German government awarded him two consecutive postdoctoral Alexander von Humboldt research grants. He has extensive experience in the design of harvesting machinery and equipment, and in other areas, including computer numerical control machining centers, robotics, and electronic packaging of radio frequency radar systems.

Reviews for Combine Harvesters: Theory, Modeling, and Design

This book takes a logical and well-structured approach to presenting a[n] understanding of the design criteria and limitations in the development of a combine harvester. The clearly laid out mathematical principles underlying the theory of operation of a combine make it easy for the reader to follow the process. -Dr. Kevin McDonnell, University College Dublin, Ireland The unitary approach taken in this book which links historical perspective and functional aspects into the classical engineering approach renders itself very well. It is encouraging to note the depth of engineering, mathematics, and other multi-disciplinary aspects in the book. The author has systematically considered all the material properties essential in the design. -Dr. Vijaya Raghavan, McGill University, Quebec, Canada In my opinion, nothing available is really comparable to this book of Petre Miu. -Dr. Ludger Frerichs, Technical University Braunschweig, Germany